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Poster: | gary glauberman | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 10:46am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Wharf Rat lyrics |
Also: in The Annotated Lyrics the opening line to Wharf Rat reads:
Old man down
way down
down, down by the docks of the city……….
In A Box of Rain by Hunter the opening line is:
Wharf rat down
way down..….
Has anything been written on this subject
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Poster: | stratocaster | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 11:45am |
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 12:05pm |
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Poster: | Earl B. Powell | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 12:19pm |
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 12:21pm |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 3:01pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
That was well played, all around; thanks to strat for starting us down that path, and the excellent follow up by SDH & Earl...
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 3:18pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
Take a few relatively Dead related posts and turn them into fodder for pointless, albeit entertaining at times, self-serving off-shoots.
Yay, us.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 3:20pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
Well, of course; and the truth is--we go on and on...and on.
As it should be I suppose.
I think Jerry might actually have agreed with this view.
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 3:28pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
Start planning now...or after the buffet closes.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 4:03pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
"...played thru the art sonic system (not 'analyzer'), ASS..."
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Poster: | Dudley Dead | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 1:35pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
I think the original line was "motherfucker" as Garcia claimed it was the first clearly audible use of the word in a Rock song, though I too though at times it was "other fucker's " , same meaning though . And I think Garcia always sang it as "Old man down".
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Poster: | high flow | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 1:48pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
I believe I have heard it both ways too. Sorry but I do not have specific dates to recommend.
In regards to the opening lyrics, Jerry often made subtle changes to the lyrics to suit his own phrasing. You hear this with the Hunter songs, the Dylan songs and the traditional tunes.
Craig Stadler was the only guy proven to be a walrus. But I always suspected the digit was lost in a freak propeller accident....and then there's those pics of him diving....and the jelly fish sting....the evidence mounts.
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Poster: | SomeDarkHollow | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 3:30pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
100 bonus points.
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Poster: | high flow | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 3:34pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
But I hear ya, this walrus angle has legs. Remember that shirtless thread....yeah, no pics of Jerry.
From Wiki:
"Walruses are relatively long-lived, social animals, and they are considered to be a "keystone species" in the Arctic marine regions."
Jerry loved the Keystone. Freaky!
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 4:02pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
You rang my Phd in ecology bell...
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Poster: | Diamondhead | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 4:19pm |
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Poster: | Dudley Dead | Date: | Jan 22, 2015 9:15pm |
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Poster: | johnnyonthespot | Date: | Jan 23, 2015 9:48am |
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Jan 23, 2015 10:05am |
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Poster: | Dudley Dead | Date: | Jan 23, 2015 12:00pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Wharf Rat lyrics |
On a more serious note, I too had your experience with the song . I remember riding in the back seat of my friend's car, and hearing that S&R version and really being hit by it . Always love the opening. When the song is done well, it is a very great song . I'm move by the the "I'll get up and fly away" . Here this doomed bum, for a few romantic seconds makes you almost believe he will .